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CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPY · BERKELEY & VIRTUAL

You can describe your patterns in detail, but knowing the cause hasn't changed anything.

Clinical hypnotherapy for those whose stress, anxiety, and stuck patterns haven't resolved despite their best efforts. Change at the deeper level, where those patterns are sourced and set.

Skye Winfrey, clinical hypnotherapist, on a hillside above the San Francisco Bay at sunset

MA

in Psychology

300+

supervised clinical hours

ACHE

Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist

3,000+

session hours · 350+ clients

Since 2013

in the helping professions

5.0

across 80+ reviews on Google · Thumbtack · Yelp

Sitting in the car in the driveway, not ready to go back in.
Everyone's okay in there — you make sure of it.
Keeping the peace by keeping quiet.
Stress-sleeping. Thoughts that keep running. Nerves with no off switch.
Performing relaxation, but feeling none of it.
Half-there with the people you love — and they can tell.

 

Somehow, you keep getting in your own way.
What helped you in life now boxes you in.
The life you worked for is here. The satisfaction isn't.
Even time alone comes with a critic.

 

What you want is simple, and lately out of reach: quiet. Ease. Your own company.
You don't want to keep picking it apart. You want to create what's next.
And under it all, a quiet wish: to reconnect with something you can barely name.

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If several of these are yours, you're in the right place.

II.

WHY THIS WORKS WHEN INSIGHT HASN'T

Skye Winfrey in session with a client at her Berkeley hypnotherapy practice

Insight isn't change.

Most people who arrive here have already done serious work — therapy, coaching, honest effort. It built real self-knowledge, and it met a limit the research names plainly: understanding a pattern and changing it are two different things, and insight accounts for only 10% of change. Hypnotherapy works where the patterns actually live — the automatic, instinctual mind — so the self-understanding you've earned becomes change-ready.

There's a second difference, and clients tend to name it as the relief: much of the work you've done was aimed at the problem. This is aimed at what you want.

The work

Morning light through open windows over an unmade bed

Stress-Resilience & Emotional Wellbeing

A pocket watch resting on dark wood
Warm stone colonnade in raking light

Peak Performance

Authentic Authority & Confidence

Stress that rest doesn't resolve — toward deep rest, a steadier baseline, and evenings that are yours again.

Emotional exhaustion · Stress & overwhelm · Sleep · Anxiety & burnout that recurs

For what's next as much as what's stuck — toward focus, follow-through, and the mental edge you know you have.

Peak performance · Mindset rewritten · Decision paralysis · Self-sabotage

The second-guessing and doubting inner critic  toward ease in your own skin and a confidence that no longer needs rehearsing.

Confidence · Presence · Perfectionism · The inner critic · Self-doubt

How it works: The method is clinical hypnotherapy — integrative, tailored to you, done at the source — where habits, moods, and mindsets take their shape.

WHAT A SESSION IS LIKE

The deepest rest you've had in months.

You remain aware and in control throughout. A focused conversation first, then guided inward attention, then the change-work itself, then a debrief.​​

A client resting on a sofa during a hypnotherapy session, hands held
As a therapist myself… Skye was the only person throughout my entire life who was able to help me with my phobia. I can now live and breathe without the fears screaming in my head.

Yelp review, 2026

VI.

"In a short time I feel my nervous system is regulated and shifted in ways I have not been able to experience before."

Thumbtack review, 2025

CLIENT EXPERIENCES

THE PATHWAY, WITH PRICES

The information you need, up front.

The numbers below are a complete set, and the consultation is where we decide together which program is best suited for you.

i  The Fit Call
An honest conversation about whether this is the right work. If it isn't, I'll say so.

Free · 30 min

ii  Discovery Consultation
A complete session, including goal-setting, assessment and hypnosis, ending with a roadmap -- an honest estimate of the hours needed.

$250

iii  Your Program
Breakthrough Series or Transformation Intensive, sized to what you need.

$1,100 · $2,000

iv  Individual Session
For contained work needing fewer than five sessions. Most situations described here don't.

$250 / session

Likely the right place

If you've worked on yourself in good faith and the pattern is still running; if you want a defined engagement — a beginning, an arc, an end; and if you're ready to work, not to be passively fixed.

Not the right place

If you're seeking insurance-covered care or a substitute for medical or mental-health treatment. When a licensed clinician is what your situation calls for, you'll hear it plainly, on the first call.

IX.

Skye Winfrey's Signature

Begin with the Fit Call.

FREE · 30 MINUTES · NO PREPARATION NEEDED

Booking opens our scheduling page — takes about a minute.

DeepWave
HYPNOTHERAPY

For inner patterns that persist despite your best efforts

skye@deepwavehypnotherapy.com · (510) 944-5758 · Virtual sessions nationwide · Berkeley, CA

Skye Winfrey (CCHt, MA Psychology) is an ACHE-credentialed certified hypnotherapist — not a licensed physician, psychologist, or state-licensed healing arts practitioner. Hypnotherapy is unlicensed in California and all U.S. jurisdictions. Services are for vocational/avocational self-improvement per CA B&P Code § 2908, are not a substitute for medical or mental health care, and do not constitute diagnosis or treatment of any condition. Reimbursement eligibility is plan-administrator-determined.

© 2026 by DeepWave Hypnotherapy

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